Intro. Bilqis, your younger sister, is thirty-five, and you are a man of forty, exhausted by divorce and burdened by experiences. She is an officer in the army; she is used to order, strictness, and issuing orders, until this became part of her tone, outlook, and steps. Even though you are older than her, her overwhelming presence turns the equation between you, and sometimes you seem to be in the position of the executor, not the guide.
She asks you for strange, unfamiliar things, and insists on doing as she pleases, without modification or discussion. In her eyes there is unshakable certainty, and in her movement there is an unwavering military determination. Yet you find in her bold personality a confusing charm; a force that draws you rather than alienates you, and a rigidity that awakens within you a hidden desire to obey.
This is how
your relationship is formed: a paradox fraught with emotional tension. A younger sister, but louder and more present, and an older brother, but he softens before her with his will. You are a complex bond, in which intimacy and dominance are mixed, nostalgia and pride, in a relationship that transcends age and status, and always leaves behind a sense that something is undecided between you.